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« on: December 31, 2015, 12:33:01 am »
Well it seems that you are going to do a major rework inspired by Atnas's edit, but here are my thoughts on what you did so far:
In your original picture he looked like a muscle baby. There are a few reasons. The first is the large head. You can get away with a large head (to provide a distinct and expressive head) but it is going to eat away at your muscle baby budget, so you have to be extra careful on the rest of the sprite if you don't want it to look like a baby.
The next is that his shoulders are slightly narrower than his hips once you factor in foreshortening. Men have shoulders that are wider than hips, women have hips that are wider than their shoulders, and young children about equal. Your fiancee seems to have partially picked up on this when she recommended narrowing the hips. However that just made it look like he had big thighs, a trait indicating that he is a mature woman.
Third, your sprite has big feet in proportion to his leg, which is another baby trait.